Introduction to Basic Education

Author: Li Sen, edited by Song Naiqing
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Publish Date: 2004-08-01
Features: Fundamentals of Basic Education closely integrates international perspectives with Chinese characteristics. Within the framework of an international perspective, it systematically explores issues such as the system, objectives, curriculum, forms, methods, models, evaluation, and reform and development trends of China's basic education. The book is divided into ten chapters. Chapter 1 discusses the essence, characteristics, and functions of basic education; Chapter 2 first examines foreign basic education from three cultural circles—Anglo-American, Continental European, and Eastern—before examining China's basic education from a historical development perspective; Chapters 3 to 8 respectively explore the system, objectives, curriculum, forms and methods, models, and evaluation of basic education; Chapter 9 studies the teaching staff of basic education and their training; and Chapter 10 explores the trends of reform and development in basic education.